Iranian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Iranian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20208
Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century. Matthew K. Shannon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). Pp. 330. Hardcover $54.95. ISBN 97815017759495
“Iranian Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”5
The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021). 317 pp. € 146.59. ISBN: 978-90-04-44274-0.5
The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars. Chelsi Mueller (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 274 pp.4
The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group3
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India. Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 260 pp. ISBN 97810093208632
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy2
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). 232 pages. $120. ISBN: 97887651036092
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)2
Kian Tajbakhsh, Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). x + 303 pp. (GBP)75. ISBN 9781009160919.2
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary2
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Ali Gholipour, Parvaresh-e zogh-e āmme dar asr-e pahlavi: tarbiyat-e zibashenakhti-ye mellat dar siyasatgozari-ye farhangi-ye dolat [Cultivating the Public Taste in the Pahlavi Era: Aesthetic Upbringi2
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Afghanistan's Lost Futures - Afghan Crucible, The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan. Elisabeth Leake (Oxford University Press, 2022). i-xxii, 343 pages, maps. ISBN: 978-0-19-884601-2
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 97811084955922
“I'd rather be married to someone I can control”: Female Javānmardī in Gulbadan Begum's Humayunnamah as a Mirror for Princesses2
Between Rebellion and Obedience: The Making of Docile Revolutionary Children in Post-Revolutionary Iran’s Keyhān-e Bachcheh-hā2
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned2
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan. Kathryn Babayan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 260. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97815036133861
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Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.1
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. John Ghazvinian (London: Oneworld, 2020). Pp 667, including notes and index. £35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97817860794731
The Bavadi and Their Bakhtiari Dialect1
Canonization and sacred text in the Yārsān religion1
Monolingualism in Iran: The Politics of Writing in Azeri Turkish1
Fawāka al-Basātin: Montakhabāti Falsafi, Eʿteqādi, Revāʾi dar Avākher-e Qājāriyeh, asar-e Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni [Fruits of Gardens by Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni: A Philosophical Miscellany in A1
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum1
The Danish Orientalist Arthur Christensen's Visit to Iran in 1929 and His Meeting with the Iranian Intelligentsia1
Editor's Note1
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.1
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation1
Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies1
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia1
Marche Triomphale: A Forgotten Musical Tract in Qajar-European Encounters1
A Capitalist Economy without Robust Capitalist Production1
Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Fire Temple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān1
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Creative Characterization and Narrative Innovation in Post-Soviet Azerbaijani Literature: Identity, Memory, and Cultural Transformation1
The Security-Development Nexus and the Jina Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran's Border Provinces1
Naderid Iran's Statehood, Territoriality, Status, and Diplomatic Capacity on Ottoman Scale: 1723-17481
What is at Stake in the Frame Story? A Timurid Reshaping of the Romance of Bahrām Gūr1
Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian1
Searching for an alliance: Habsburgs, Rurikids, and the Third Ottoman-Safavid War (1578–1590)1
The Frontier Pushes Back: From Local Languages to Imperial Substrate(s) in Scribal Practices in 8th-century Central Asia1
Safavid Wars and Italian Archives: Shedding Light on Italian Knowledge of Ottoman-Safavid Conflicts1
Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark, Prashant Keshavmurthy, New York: Routledge (Iranian Studies, 33), 2016, ISBN 9780367876449 (hbk), 178 pp.1
The “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising in Iran and Abroad: Political or Culture Revolution?1
The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction, and Form in the Periphery, Omid Azadibougar, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, ISBN 978-90-420-3884-4 (pbk), 241 pp.1
With the Caravan of Isidore of Charax on the Road of Upper Media: Reconstruction of the Ancient Routes and Some Old Toponyms in the Kangavar-Asadabad Plain, Based on Historical Texts and Archaeologica1
Performative Diplomacy: Iran–Republic of China Relations, 1920–19491
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān1
India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists. Arthur Dudney (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022). 336 pp. ISBN 97801928574151
Kurdish Bildungsroman and Its Historical and Social Concerns: The Case of Sayyed Qadir Hedayati1
Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia0
The Unfinished History of the Iran–Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Annie Tracy Samuel (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). xvii + 302 pp. $99.99. ISBN 9781100
The Friday Mosque of Sava: Exemplifying Continuity and Integrity in Iranian Mosque Architecture0
Diasporic Jina Revolutionary Momentum in Berlin0
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. Richard Foltz (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 256. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 97817845395590
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
“Nowhere but Everywhere”: The Principle of Legality and the Complexities of Judicial Discretion in Iran0
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
Gholam-Hosayn Zargarinezhad, Andisheh va Siyasat dar Iran-e Qajar [Thought and Politics in Qajar Iran], 2 vols (Tehran: Negarestan-e Andisheh, 1398 Sh./2019–20).0
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Hezb-e Tudeh-ye Iran and Its Struggle Against the Challenges Posed Against It by the British, 1942–1946: An Analysis Based on Soviet Documents0
J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
A Note on the Āl-i Burhān of Bukhara and the Author of the Laṭāʾif al-aḏkār - CORRIGENDUM0
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 312 pp. Hardcover, $95.33. ISBN 97814744840150
The Foreign Trade of Tabriz: 1800-19000
Public Interest (Maslahat) in Shiʿi Theocracy: Implications for Legal and Political Decision-Making0
Hair and Hat Ritual Shaming Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Iran0
Materiality of Traumatic Experience and the Limits of Representation in Hassan Bani Ameri's Gonjeshkha Behesht ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven)0
Goštāsb, Farzāne. Āẕar Kayvān: zendegināme, ās̱ār-o ʿaqāyed [Āẕar Kayvān: An Account of His Life, Writings and Beliefs]. Pažuhešgāh-e ʿolūm-e ensānī-o moṭāleʿāt-e farhangī, 1400 š [2021]0
Women Reclaiming Their Voices for Life and Freedom: Music and the 2022 Uprising in Iran0
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 97814744508430
The Collapse of the Male Gaze in the Cinema of Bahram Beyzaie: The Crow and Maybe Some Other Time0
Soviet Persian Anthologies: Transnational, Multinational, International0
Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture. M. Mehdi Khorrami and Amir Moosavi, eds. Iranian Studies Series (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2021). Pp.0
Meysam Safarchi, Tejārisāzi va masrafgarāyi: tahavvol-e fazā va farhang-e shahri dar Tehran [Commercialization and Consumerism: Transformation of Urban Space and Culture in Tehran] (Tehran, Ira0
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Female Flâneurs and Modern Urban Spaces in Goli Taraghi’s Tehran0
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran0
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
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Bert G. Fragner0
Back to the Motherland? Parsi Gujarati Travelogues of Iran in the Qajar-Pahlavi Interregnum, 1921–19250
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Review of Güngörürler's Selim The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639–1682: Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle East 0
Īhām, or the Technique of Double Meaning in Literature: Its Theory and Practice in the Twelfth Century0
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
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Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan0
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From ritual to performance: Ta'zieh in Iran today0
Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World, Reza Tabandeh and Leonard Lewisohn (eds.), Irvine, CA: UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020, ISBN 978-1-949743-20-3 (hbk), 632 pp.0
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Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East. Arang Keshavarzian (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 324 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036388770
ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.0
Transcendence between Expression and Secrecy: A Critical Cognitive Perspective on the Metaphorical Discourse of Yārsān Religion0
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary, Rajeev Kinra, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015, ISBN 9780520286467 (pbk)0
Bahram Beyzaie: A Visionary in Focus—A Review of Saeed Talajooy’s Study - Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959–1979). Volume 1. Saeed Talajooy0
Uninvited Guests and Biting Dogs: Munīr Lāhorī and the Definition of an Indo-Persian Literary Tradition0
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity, Manata Hashemi, New York: New York University Press, 2020, ISBN 9781479876334 (hbk), 256 pp.0
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And the Master Answered?: Deferrals of Authority in Contemporary Sufism in Iran0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty0
Gurughli: The Tajik Variety of the Epic of Köroğlu0
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
Aria Fani, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism, Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024). Pp. 264. $55.00 c0
The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History, edited by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4744-5034-8, xviii+3100
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.0
Obituary – ERRATUM0
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
The Sultan's Life as a Tragedy? Zeyā al-Din Barani, Moʿezz al-Din Keyqobād, and the Performance ofTārikh0
“Revolution” as Restoration: Woman, Life, Freedom in the Diasporic Imaginary0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 2020, ISBN 9781138333055 (hbk), 688 pp.0
Editor's Note0
The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation. Sohrab Sepehri. Translated by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Prashant Keshavmurthy (Leiden: Brill, 2022). 419 pp. ISBN 97890044723720
Colonizing Spatiality: The Western Civilizing Mission, Heating Technology, and Getting Iranians, Literally, Off the Ground0
Early Persian Verse Romances inMutaqārib: Form, Structure, Contents0
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Re-considering Environmental Activism in Iran: Materiality and Social Histories of Nature0
Uncertain Cures: The Medical Marketplace in Pahlavi Iran0
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century0
Military Command and Imperial Knowledge in the Anonymous Chronicle Tevārīḫ-i Futuḥ-i Şirvān0
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World Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity. Omid Azadibougar (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Pp. 203. $89.99 hardcover, paper; $69.99 e-book. ISBN: 978-981-15-1690-0.0
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Shah ‘Abbās I: The Myth, the Monarch, and the Man0
A Firm Policy Decision: Infrastructural Form and Pahlavi Developmentalism at the Ahvāz Pipe Mill0
The Gharib Shah Rebellion of 16290
What is New about the New Materialism? Reflections from the Global South and an Introduction to Materiality in Iran0
Artificial Intelligence in Iran: National Narratives and Material Realities0
Domy na piasku. Polacy w Iranie (1942–1945). Katarzyna Rodacka (Krakow: Znak, 2025). 306 pp. Hardcover 64.99 zł. ISBN: 97883240644340
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Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran0
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 97802625428450
Cooking Iranian Food in America, 1960-1979: the Politics of Authenticity in Revolutionary Times – CORRIGENDUM0
Scholarly Circles and the Transmission of Knowledge: Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 1030/1621) and His Mobile Scholarly Circle in Safavid Iran0
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Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan0
Cooking Iranian Food in America, 1960–1979: the Politics of Authenticity in Revolutionary Times0
Discourses of Writing in Negāresh Textbooks: The Neglect of Social Practice and Sociopolitical Discourses in the Pedagogy of Persian Writing0
Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State. Shirin Saeidi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 220 pp. Hardcover $75. ISBN: 13165157610
The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024). 230 pages, 32 illustrations. $26.95 paper. ISBN 97814780302490
The “Kāmūsī Corpus”: A Case Study in Manuscript Production and Knowledge Transmission in Ilkhanid Iran0
Retranslation in Mughal South Asia: The Impressive Failure of a Persian Panchatantra0
Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran. Houchang E. Chehabi (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020). Pp. 109. $17.95. ISBN 9780674248199.0
Russian Officialdom and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905–19110
Esordi del romanzo persiano: dal Vis e Rāmin di Gorgāni (XI sec.) al ciclo di Tristano. Nahid Norozi. (Alessandria, Italy: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021.) Pp. 516. €40 paperback. ISBN 97888361314710
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century0
The Future of Iran's Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered, Neguin Yavari, London: Hurst & Company, 2018, ISBN 978-1-84904-820-0 (hbk), 275 pp.0
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The Market in Poetry in the Persian World. Shahzad Bashir (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 88 pp. $20.00 paper. ISBN 97811089486470
Feeding Iran: Shi'i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic. Rose Wellman (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Pp. 262. $34.95. ISBN 97805203768780
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.0
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran0
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography0
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.0
Ḥakīm Zajjājī’s Humāyūn-nāmah: An Eye-Witness Account of Early Mongol Rule in Tabriz (1220–1258)0
Iranian Immigration to Israel: History and Voices, in the Shadow Of Kings by Ali L. Ezzatyar. London: Abingdon and New York, 2022. 219 pages0
The Cultural Impact of the Persian Language in and around Bidlis0
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians0
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran0
Review, Isaac McKean Scarborough, Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023)0
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My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery (eds.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4773-2027-3 (hbk), 296 pp.0
To Tell Anew: Fresh Perspectives on Persian Narrative0
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression0
From Dengbêj to Modern Writer: Heritagization of the Kurdish Oral Tradition and Revitalization of the Kurdish Language in the Works of Mehmed Uzun and Mehmet Dicle0
Centuries beyond Time (Qarn-hā-ye bi-Zamān): Epistemological Analysis of ʿAttār's Manteq al-Tayr. Mehdi Mohabbati (Tehran: Hermes, 2020). Pp. 951. ISBN 97860045623170
Historical Fantasy: exploring the Spectrums of Fetishism and Nostalgia in Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl0
Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran – CORRIGENDUM0
Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan0
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science0
The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History0
TheQalandarKing: Early Development of theQalandariyyātand Saljuq Conceptions of Kingship in Amir Moʿezzi's Panegyric for Sharafshāh Jaʿfari0
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Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–19040
The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran: Modernity, Modernization and Social Change, 1921–1979. Maruf Cabi (London: I. B. Tauris, 2023). 217 pp. Hardcover $100. ISBN 97807556456530
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars. Alla Ivanchikova (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019). 259 pp. ISBN 97815575384680
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Ali Mirsepassi (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). 256 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 97813995114210
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The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I: Safavid Ruler of Iran. Shah Tahmasp I (Author), Andrew Peacock (Translator) (I. B. Tauris, 2024). 184 pp. $115.00 Hardback. ISBN 97807556535530
The School Principal and the Children: Patriarchy and Changing Childhoods in Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's Novella0
Gender and Singing in Pahlavi Soundscape: Modern Feminine Culture and Masculine Politics in the Age of Popular Culture, Vision, and Rumors; A Discussion of Sensory History in Modern Iran0
Shadow Performance in Iran0
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.0
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Writing Capitalism into Iran through the International0
The Isfahan Anthology Project0
Displaying Modern Life: Experiencing the Promises, Desires, and Perils of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Tehran through Window-Shopping in Crossroad of Events (1955), Mr. Naive (1971), and Under the Skin of 0
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature0
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India. Supriya Gandhi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020). Pp. 338. $32.00 hardcover. ISBN 97806749872960
Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. Nazanin Shahrokni (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). ISBN 9780520304284 (paperback), 176 pp.0
The Iran-Iraq War, Pierre Razoux, Nicholas Elliott (trans.), Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-6740-8863-4 (hbk), 688 pp.0
dastanandtuwān, Adjectives or Nouns? A Discussion about Their Grammatical Category and Meaning in Middle Persian0
Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Jonathan L. Lee, London: Reaktion Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78914-010-1 (hbk), 780 pp.0
Editor’s Note0
Khomeini Kitsch: Material Cultures of the Iran Hostage Crisis0
Writing Capitalism into Iranian History0
Ismāʿīl al-Qasṛī, Kubrawiyya, and Sufi Genealogies: “Deep-Dark Transmissions” in Medieval Iran0
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora. Nima Naghibi (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Pp. 211 (paperback). ISBN 978-08166838400
Sites of Disremembering: Narrative Tactics of Remembering the Past in Qasr and Heshmatieh Neighborhoods of Tehran0
Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī's Works0
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19410
Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500-1639. Sinem Arcak Casale (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023). Pp. 288. Cloth $55.00. ISBN 97802268204220
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
Tammarītu, “king of Ḫidalu,” Tammarītu, “king of Elam”0
Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts0
Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond G. J. Breyley and Sasan Fatemi. London: Routledge, 2016. 202 pp., ISBN: 9780815358084 pbk, 9780415575126 hbk0
Ḥikāyat-i Sayyid Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Analyses of a subaltern Nizari Ismaili Text Written before the Declaration of the Qiyāmat-i buzurg (the Great Resurrection) in 559/11640
Review of The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries . Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary 0
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.950
The Ancient Iranian Perception of Cyrus the Great0
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. James Pickett (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). Pp. 301. $54.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017502430
Ottoman Policies Regarding Shah Ismāʿīl II as Seen through Ottoman Documents0
Editor's Note0
The Bābī-Bahā’ī Revolution in Iran – CORRIGENDUM0
“What Sāz Did We Go to War with?” Musical Representation and the Possibility of a Persian Musical Modernity0
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. Arash Khazeni (Oakland, CA: California University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $85.00 (Hardcover), $29.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 97805202890
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“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–250
Flower of Endurance: An Ethnography of Opium’s Untold Role in Iran’s Capitalist Margins0
Willful Self-Exile as Feminist Resistance in the Iranian Diaspora0
Kamran Talattof. Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic, Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-97989-8, 284 pp.0
Art of Protest in Five Acts0
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry, Levi Thompson, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 231 pages. £75.00. ISBN: 978-1-009-16447-40
The Armenian Community and Changing Iranian Perceptions of Minority0
Love at a Crux – The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Cameron Cross (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2023). 370 pages. ISBN 978-1-4875-4727-1.0
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 392. $40.95 paper. ISBN: 978-07556383450
Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. Michael Pifer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021). Pp. 320. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97803002503980
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Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
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The One Thousand and First Night: A Play by Bahram Beyzaie Translated and Critical Analysis by Saeed Talajooy (San Francisco, USA: Bisheh Publishing, 2023). 162 pp. Paperback, $20. ISBN 97817355686760
Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King's Acolytes, Jason M. Silverman (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 690), London: Bloomsbury (Impr0
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